War and Words
This edited volume examines the methods, conventions and pitfalls of constructing verbal accounts of military conflict in literature and the media, bringing together such diverse material as canonical literature, war veterans’ testimonies, computer games, and propaganda.
Nigeria, a Country under Siege
This volume provides a comprehensive assessment of the problem of conflict and its methods of management in Nigeria’s contemporary democracy. It represents a compendium of resourceful studies provided by experts on conflict studies from across the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Dialogues on the Delta
This interdisciplinary collection examines Stockton, California. Once ground zero for the housing crisis and the first major American city to declare bankruptcy, it cannot be framed by misfortune alone. Discover a vibrant community with a rich, diverse, and vital history.
Place and Tourism Promotion
This book examines Arusha, Tanzania’s place promotion strategies. It reveals how the city uses national parks and flag institutions to attract international tourists, boosting its popularity and growing the number of visits to its attractions.
The Polish Swan Triumphant
This collection of essays covers several centuries of Polish literature and its reception abroad, from the Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowski and the Baroque to the great precursor of modern poetry, Cyprian Norwid. It explores their influence on foreign poets.
Panecka interprets the poetry of Ted Hughes as a product of shamanic performance, the work of a mystic and a healer. She shows that the Poet Laureate claimed that England had lost her soul, which he proposed to retrieve through veneration of Nature.
Merry Murderers
This book explores the femme fatale in American culture through Maurine Dallas Watkins’s story, Chicago. It argues that Chicago’s revivals produce a unique figure: the farcical femme fatale, who combines tragedy with comedy to get away with her crimes.
Radical Contra-Diction
This first book-length study of Coleridge’s reactions to the French Revolution examines his trajectory from ‘radical’ to ‘conservative’, and challenges the very notion that these labels can be applied to him.
Loan and Investment in a Developing Economy
This title investigates various issues of investment and credit that are of importance to any developing economy through an analysis of micro- and macro-economic data from Ethiopia. It will interest academics working in the field of development economics.
This book delves into neurodegenerative illnesses like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, exploring molecular targets for therapy. By analysing neural circuits, protein misfolding, and genetics, it unravels the mind’s complexities, offering optimism for millions worldwide.
The growth of Creative Writing has generated new ways of thinking about the craft. This book presents fresh explorations that treat writing as a dynamic activity, not a static object, offering practical ways to develop your own work.
This is the first comparative study of Kant and Herschel. Their model of the world dismissed the idea of a finite, static cosmos and introduced an evolutionary perspective that had a crucial influence on nineteenth- and twentieth-century astronomy.
This monograph presents a survey and evaluation of Cavafy’s poetical work with an emphasis on his historical and didactic poems, examining the relationship between his writing and Aristotle’s Poetics for the first time.
Challenges of Discourse Processing
This book shows how linguistic analysis and natural language processing can automatically recognize the discourse structures of technical documents. It presents concrete solutions which can be deployed in industrial contexts to improve document quality.
Composed of a series of studies about various trends in stylistics, this compendium serves to bring stylistic analyses closer together, thus demonstrating the potential of stylistics as a research area that can benefit from other disciplines.
Cultural Difference and Social Solidarity
This book explores solidarity as a social function, highlighting its critical value in understanding contemporary societies. It presents new theoretical approaches alongside diverse global case studies to explore how solidarity is made and remade.
Language – Nation – Identity
How does language define one’s national identity? This volume explores the relationship between language, nation, and identity from a 21st-century perspective, analyzing its changing role across different historical, social, and linguistic contexts.
Coming Home? Vol. 1
Forced displacement creates conflict. This book explores the complex link between return migration and the compelling but often chimerical search for home. Scholars examine tensions between nation-states and migrants in 20th and 21st century Europe and North Africa.
Writing the Other
Writing the Other: Humanism versus Barbarism in Tudor England explores the dynamic opposition between the “human” and the “barbarous.” These essays reveal how the cultural Other was invented to forge identities, from England to North Africa and the New World.
This guide to nematology in South Asia covers major field problems, their solutions, and new management technologies from renowned experts. Featuring practical field experiences and original images, it is ideal for students, researchers, and plant protection professionals.